CTAN pack­age up­grade: file­con­tents

Date: Au­gust 18, 2004 4:05:39 PM CEST

A pack­age has been up­graded at tug.ctan.org and should soon be at your
fa­vorite mir­ror.
Thank you for the up­load,
Jim Hef­feron
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The fol­low­ing in­for­ma­tion was pro­vided by the pack­age's con­trib­u­tor.
Name of con­tri­bu­tion: file­con­tents
Author's name: Scott Pakin
Lo­ca­tion on CTAN: macros/la­tex/con­trib/file­con­tents
Sum­mary de­scrip­tion: Im­proved ver­sion of LaTeX2e's file­con­tents en­vi­ron­ment
Li­cense type: lppl
An­nounce­ment text given by the pack­age's con­trib­u­tor:
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LaTeX2e's file­con­tents and file­con­tents* en­vi­ron­ments
en­able a LaTeX source file to gen­er­ate ex­ter­nal files
as it's run through la­tex. How­ever, there are two
lim­i­ta­tions of these en­vi­ron­ments: They refuse to
over­write ex­ist­ing files; and, they can be used only
be­fore the \doc­u­ment­class dec­la­ra­tion. The
file­con­tents pack­age re­moves these lim­i­ta­tions, mak­ing
it pos­si­ble to over­write ex­ist­ing files and to use
file­con­tents/file­con­tents* any­where.
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You can have a look at the pack­age at
http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/la­tex/con­trib/file­con­tents
al­though you may get a bet­ter net­work con­nec­tion by vis­it­ing a mir­ror
of CTAN that is near to you; see
http://www.ctan.org/tex-archive/README.mir­rors

LaTeX2ε's file­con­tents and file­con­tents*
en­vi­ron­ments en­able a LaTeX source file to gen­er­ate ex­ter­nal files
as it runs through LaTeX. How­ever, there are two lim­i­ta­tions of
these en­vi­ron­ments: they refuse to over­write ex­ist­ing files, and
they can only be used in the pream­ble of a doc­u­ment. The
file­con­tents pack­age re­moves these lim­i­ta­tions, let­ting you
over­write ex­ist­ing files and let­ting you use
file­con­tents/file­con­tents* any­where.